Love Hate (1971) User Reviews

Fast paced fugitive movie, in Mocky style with lots of hate of politicians

[norbert-plan-618-715813 · 7/10 · 10 December 2023]

It's always interesting to watch a Jean-Pierre Mocky film. There are no unnecessary frills: no unnecessary running time (although 92 minutes is a long time for Jean-Pierre Mocky), no unnecessary dialogue, no unnecessary sequences, no unnecessary characters. Here, Jean-Pierre Mocky plays l'Albatros, a prison escapee, wanted by the police, who kidnaps the daughter of a politician, in the middle of an election campaign, where both candidates are twisted and profiteering, like any politician. It's fast-paced. Marion Game is delightful as the daughter of one of the two politicians, both perfidious and profiteering. The police are at the service of the powerful, cowardly and without integrity. It's a Jean-Pierre Mocky festival, and he's a very credible actor.

The film contains some beautiful scenes: when Albatross makes love with Marion Game, in shadow, a fine visual idea. Or the sequence in the supermarket with the change of clothes. All the sequences with the politicians, all treacherous, twisted, liars and egotists.

His giant's wings keep him from walking.

[dbdumonteil · 2 October 2006]

That's what Beaudelaire wrote in his eponymous poem.This is probably Jean-Pierre Mocky's best film .It's pleasant to review a good movie of a director who squandered his skills in lots and lots of unworthy films.

A man (played by Mocky himself) escapes from jail and takes a woman hostage .She is none other than the daughter of a corrupted politician .She falls in love with the fugitive and like him,she rebels against a society whose only value is dough.

The last scenes are among the French seventies' best depicting the folie à deux ,l'Amour Fou.Recommended

When nihilism meets poetry

[searchanddestroy-1 · 2 May 2023]

Pure Jean Pierre Mocky's style, especially for the seventies period, era of revolt, reject of nearly everything, against governments, laws, police, institutions of all kinds; the perfect topic for someone as Jean Pierre Mocky, the sweet anarchist of the French film industry. This movie is the best example of the anti hero, who fights for some cause already lost in advance, with a predictable ending, as it was for Jean Pierre Mocky's UN LINCEUL N'A PAS DE POCHES, made several years later and more or less on the same line, also speaking of revolt, fight against the state power. Here you have nihilism and poetry too, providing moving situations. Very dark and gloomy, as you have already guessed.